One year to presidential elections: how to rescue the achievements of the Revolution of Dignity? Talk with Serhiy Leshchenko
Date and time:
Monday 28 May, 2018
19:00 - 20:30
Location:
Ukrainian Institute London
79 Holland Park
London
W11 3SW
Ukraine is at the crossroads: geopolitical, value-based and generational. Four after following the revolution of Kyiv's Maidan, it boasts a list of achievements and a litany of failures. The discussion if the glass is half-full or half-empty, rages on. With just one year to go to the presidential elections, Ukraine stands up to new challenges: an attack on new anti-corruption institutions and its civil society, growing populism and risk of a flare-up of the conflict in the east of the country. Is society ready for a rush to make the reform outcomes irreversible? Or is Ukraine on a brink of a rollback?
A talk with Serhiy Leshchenko, Ukrainian MP and journalist, moderated by Bohdan Tsioupine, a journalist.
This event will be held in English.
FREE
Speaker
Serhiy Leshchenko
Serhiy Leshchenko is a member of the Ukrainian Parliament, former investigative journalist, blogger, and press freedom activist. He is a member of the Parliamentary committee on corruption prevention. From 2000 up to 2014 he worked for Ukrainska Pravda, where he specialized in anti-corruption investigations and other political reporting. He helped to launch the «Stop Censorship!» movement in 2010 and «Chesno» campaign that called for transparency in Parliament. In 2011, Poland’s Foundation of Reporters recognized Mr. Leshchenko as the best journalist within the countries of the Eastern Partnership. Most recently, in 2013, Mr. Leshchenko was awarded a Press Prize by the Norwegian Fritt Ord Foundation and the German ZEIT Foundation. He recently exposed evidence of Paul Manafort’s, Doland Trump's campaign manager, systematic corruption.